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    from tx # rci » ing successfully the exertions which have for thtir object the ^ XGitement of beauty in others , supposing " iffite ^^ sibilitr ^ the community refined . He thus loses the p | ea * u ! of conferring pleasure ; and if the sensibility of the community be vitiated like his own , he may exercise his evil genius atjtt * t& sacrifice of the more excellent occupation of improving Ettfcjfrof cultivating and elevating the public mind .

    Surely it must be an advantage to the individual and to t& £ community at large , that the Arts should afford a point of common sympathy ; that while each enjoys sympathy with tti ^ objects of inanimate nature , and in the warmth of his pleasure , endows them with imaginary feeling and reciprocity of sense ,

    each should enjoy the pleasure of agreement with others , and a common enjoyment be induced . Thus may the critic or the artist feel that in cultivating and correcting general taste , he is drawing closer the ties of sympathy ; freeing their cords and strengthening their strands . Only by striving after this high correctness of sensibility can we hope to add , to the

    present enjoyment of beauty , the enhancement to be derived from the confidence that we are educating our minds for the future sensibility of high pleasure . ^ h& $ tfrotidns of imagination &re destined , I apprehend , stfrt perhaps at ** o very distant period , to enter fat more largely

    than they do at present into the sum of human enjoyment . This accession of enjoyment will not be at the expense if present modes , will not be induced by the diversion of $ ie mind from the more staid pleasures of intellectual exercise , % mere amusement and frivolity ; not even by a redrreticm 0 those excitements which are stigmatised as senmial ; but

    'Without supplanting any of the present sources of happiftltig , / 0 r impeding their future development . There is plenty *> f roo * n ; tracts and regions sufficiently extensive in the field of hmftaB conscious existence—at present chiefly occupied % y mttiprj- * - which ib ' ay be brought into cultivation for this ^ ttti ^ aWe ^ O * - duct , which yet shall wave with an abundant harvest . TJ | b full accomplishment of this desirable consummation must'wait

    on the progress of society ; the general improvement of men in the economy of their capabilities , and of those of the w ^ rW which God has given them , by the simultaneous div ^ ipn ^ u ^ co-operation of exertion . / Whski the time employed in the acquirement of t ^ ' na ^ an ^ .. of em <> Vfti 0 Bt sh ^ ll bear a less disproportionate ratip tp ' x ^' . iM&ffik

    is devoted to the end ; and when some alleviation is rea ^^ Bjl of-Vfo | ihysiical fe ^ cl ^ u&tion which now ens ues on '¦ & $$ * i f ^^ f and ^ rdtracted labour as is the very condition of continuance ifti ^^^ Wf ^ gre ^ t ^^ rf fi ^ d tMi teli ^ lb € bcpet # % q ^| p ^ pi ^ ba ^« i -z ^ Ridly ^

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    Is there a Standard of Taste ? 3 H

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/21/